State/Country

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World
State/Country
Neighborhood
Peers/School/Job/Family
Person
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Schooling

• most developing countries have compulsory
  schooling
• most 12-13 year olds are in school
• regional differences
• majority of adolescent girls in sub-Saharan
  Africa not in secondary school
• large gender gaps in school enrollment
• variations urban, semi-urban, rural
• policies, family expectations impact on girls
  schooling experiences

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Why care about schooling?
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Every year of schooling increases a girls
earning power by 10-20Education/earning
power associated with better health nutrition,
increased child survival, later age at marriage,
and lower fertility
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Accessible Services Outcomes Vary State by
State

• Texas Mississippi had 74 births per 1,000
  females 15-19 in 1996
• D.C. had 102 births
• Massachusetts had 32 births

• state funding for FP ranges from 0-78 per female
  15-19
• funding for abortion varies by state
• 3/4 SBC prohibited from giving contraception
• few SBC in rural areas

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Savage Inequalities?

• Studentguidance counselor ratio GWHS 1996
  11,666
• Computers GWHS per 1,000 4.5
• Computers Stuyvesant HS per 1,000 8.0
• Computers NYS suburbs per 1,000 12.8

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Media Violence